Robert Kiyosaki Blog

Federal regulators took over Indy Mac today. Check out the story! Less banks and less money in the capital markets means more money necessary for investors from private sources!

The next games for the Twin Cities Rich Dads and Moms Cashflow club are
this Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Leominster, MA and June 12, 2008
in Leominster, MA.

We’ll have a speaker on January 12 talking about building wealth for families.

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Wow.

The mortgage business has been hard for many mortgage professionals as the real estate market has cools from a flippers dream or from the idea that just owning a home makes you rich. I’ve seen many many mortgage originators and brokers go into other lines of work and honestly who could blame them?

With Massachusetts adding the requirement of licensing, the number is now being seen as falling as much as 80% from the height of the real estate boom when mortgage brokers made easy money and lots of people entered the field. This comes from the Massachusetts Mortgage Bankers Association.

Read the article from the Boston Business Journal! Thanks go to Danielle Rocheford for forwarding the article to me.

There is likely a silver lining in this for the mortgage brokers that stick. They will have far less competition and the ones that stay should have a lot more business I’d guess.

The first REOs Open! for Worcester Real Estate Investors and the Northern Worcester County Real Estate Investors was a success! With 8 people in attendance, including Jeff Landry and Tina Miller of J.A. Landry Carpentry. Jeff is not only carpenter but he’s also a general contractor. Jeff and Tina helped with ballpark repair prices on each property that helped with analysis. Jeff and Tina are both board members of the Northern Worcester County Landlord Association.

We visited 4 properties, 3 in Leominster and 1 in Fitchburg. 2 properties were SFH and 2 were multi-families. There was a lot of interest in the 3-family REO in Fitchburg. It’s not currently listed and needed some repairs and some asbestos remediation in the basement. The Duplex in Leominster was the worst house in a great neighborhood. The lot value alone is more than the current price!

We analyzed the Fitchburg property to determine what the likely repair costs would be, carrying costs, etc., what the maximum amount that could profitably offered if performing the full repairs and remediation as well as will a more modest rehab. In other word, what needed to be done to know how the property would perform. We also discussed the types of financing that would be available and the cash down requirements for those loan products. So a lot of information was discussed and shared!

The next REOs Open in Gardner is tentatively scheduled for June 22nd. Check your mailboxes! We look forward to another successful outing.